Quotes About Existence

For God's sake, where is God?" And from within me, I heard a voice answer: "Where He is? This is where – hanging here from this gallows.

Why do you pray? he asked me, after a moment. Why did I pray? A strange question. Why did I live? Why did I breathe?

Ultimately, though, healing is not about whether you die. Healing is about how fully you live. I

Somewhere along the way, we lost the experience of unity. We live our lives propping up the pathetic lie that we are different from everything else. This is a lie because the same awareness shines in the heart of all things. The lie is pathetic because it dooms us to a dry life of alienation.

I am in a waiting room without end, without location, without time or place. If I go outside, I die before I get any answers. I exist only in a theoretical way, like a point on a coordinate plane. I am the simulation.

How much of who I am is defined by the world around me, and how much is something more innate?

St. Augustine said, The very pleasures of human life men acquire by difficulties. There are times when the entire arrangement of our existence is disrupted and we long then for just one ordinary day - seeing our ordinary life as greatly desirable, even wonderful, in the light of the terrible disruption that has taken place. Difficulty opens our eyes to pleasures we had taken for granted.

Birth is not a beginning and death is not an ending. They are merely points on a continuum.

Tal vez el principal obstáculo que nos impide comprender la muerte es que nuestro inconsciente es incapaz de aceptar que nuestra existencia deba terminar.

Life feels pointless.

Debemos aceptar con humildad que haya millones de cosas que no entendemos todavía, pero esto no quiere decir que sólo por el hecho de no comprenderlas no existan o no sean realidades.

Nor could I have imagined that afterward I would spend the rest of my life explaining that death does not exist.

Woven into our lives is the very fire from the stars and genes from the sea creatures, and everyone, utterly everyone, is kin in the radiant tapestry of being.

Why, what is to live? Not to eat and drink and breathe,—but to feel the life in you down all the fibres of being, passionately and joyfully.

Abstracts are real and time is a lie, it cannot be measured when one moment can expand to hold everything.

Frank, saying, Who cares what happens before we're born and after we die? The question is, what do we do in the meantime?

Isn't it really true that life is so beautiful because it's so fleeting and fragile?

That's life. You're born, and you get a ride on the Whirligig

I could still taste and smell and hear and see," she said. "I could still learn and I could still teach. I could still love and be loved. I had my mind and my spirit. And I had you.

My way of looking at it is, who cares what happens before we're born and after we die? The question that has become increasingly important to me is, what do we do in the meantime?

can never get enough time in here.

Sheriff: There's nothing about her on Facebook, either. If she's not on Facebook, I have to wonder if people are just making her up, if she even exists Seth: I'm not on Facebook Sheriff: I rest my case

Don't waste your most important resource—your life.

We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.